Let’s face it. You don’t know shit about what’s wrong with the health care system and what needs to be done to fix it. You think it has something to do with the personal stories people tell about being denied coverage – greedy insurance companies getting between patients and their doctors. This is mostly bullshit.
Or you think it’s about socialism and long waiting lists. If you’re really a nutjob, by which I mean a Republican, you think it has something to do with radical left wing African American nazi abortionists. Whatever.

The reality is that it is mostly about economics. Don’t listen to personal anecdotes – look at data. Costs vs. outcomes. Competition vs. regulation. Inefficiency and waste. It’s all about money and it’s really important that the focus be on money.

This American Life gets it. Every so often, between all their shows on the travails of the upper middle class, this radio show knocks it out of the park. This is one of those times. Listen to it.